
Contested Identities
Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece
Princeton University Press
Published on 21. April 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-691-02859-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain elaborate friendships with nonfamily members while the women do not; why young housewives often participate in conflict-resolution rituals; and how the dominant role of mature married householders is challenged by unmarried persons who emphasize spontaneity and personal autonomy. This collection demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural, competing, antagonistic, and are continually being redefined by contexts and social change.
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"[This] outstanding collection ... will without doubt be essential reading for anyone concerned with Greece, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans, especially in respect of the nexus between kinship, marriage, gender, friendship, religion and symbolism."--Social AnthropologyMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-02859-0 (9780691028590)
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Persons
Peter Loizos
Content
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Gender, Kinship, and Religion: "Reconstructing" the Anthropology of Greece, pg. 29*Chapter 2. Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece, pg. 47*Chapter 3. Silence, Submission, and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood, pg. 79*Chapter 4. The Resolution of Conflict through Song in Greek Ritual Therapy, pg. 98*Chapter 5. The Limits of Kinship, pg. 114*Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Metaphors of Kinship among Greek Nuns, pg. 135*Chapter 7. Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Gender, and Kinship in Aegean Greece, pg. 156*Chapter 8. Going Out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in Everyday Sociability, pg. 180*Chapter 9. Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and the Ambiguities of Sexual Predation in a Greek Town, pg. 203*Chapter 10. Gender, Sexuality, and the Person in Greek Culture, pg. 221*Contributors, pg. 235*Literature Cited, pg. 237*Index, pg. 255